T. rexski
Posted by Shannon
Palaeontologists digging in a brickyard in southern Poland have discovered the fossilised remains of a dinosaur that they say is a previously unknown ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The predator dinosaur, given the working name “Dragon”, lived around 200 million years ago, team member Dr Tomasz Sulej of the Polish Science Academy told Reuters.
UPDATE: According to the posters in the VRTPALEO mailing list,
“An ancestor of _Tyrannosaurus rex_” is popular media shorthand for “an unbeaked pre-Maastrichtian non-avialan theropod”.
The age of 200 million years should have tipped me off.
Tags: paleontology, poland, tyrannosaurs